ENVIRONMENT & ECOLOGYNew England States Move to Increase Hydropower
Boston Globe
Hydropower could play a larger role in New England's energy mix as five of the region's states, including Massachusetts, move to import more of it - most likely from Canada - and at least one has passed a law that could allow electricity from large-scale hydrolectric dams to be classified as green as…

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Blogosphere: Relative Costs of Transit Construction
Pedestrian Observations
The relative costs of different technologies of transit are not fixed. Although there are some rules of thumb for the ratio of tunneling cost to above-ground transit cost, the actual ratio depends on the city and project, and this would favor the mode that's relatively cheaper...

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Blogosphere: New Urbanism and Transit Part II
Human Transit
An excellent comment debate has arisen on my recent post "New Urbanists are from Mars, Transit Planners are from Venus," which addresses the mutual incomprehension between many transit agencies and many urban designers who think they're building transit friendly communities...

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Blogosphere: Americans Support Transit Twice Roads
Streetsblog SF
When asked what would solve traffic problems in their community, 42 percent of Americans say more transit. Only 20 percent say more roads. And 21 percent would like to see communities developed that don't require so much driving...

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Blogosphere: Enhancing Revolving Funds for Transpo
Brookings
In recent years, states and the federal government…

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Blogosphere: Hwy Spending As Transparent as Bike/Ped
DC Streetsblog
"There's an inverse proportion of the size of a transportation program to the amount of transparency," says Deron Lovaas of the Natural Resources Defense Council. While anyone can easily find in granular detail anything they would ever want to know about where bike/ped money goes..

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Blogosphere: What Does $2B of BRT Look Like?
Portland Transport
Over on their Facebook page, OPAL links to an old Jarrett Walker column from three years ago, "bus-rail debates in a beautiful abstract city, and in los angeles". In it, he poses the question of which is a better use of transit dollars:..

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Blogosphere: Metro Board Chooses Subway Route
The Source
The final route and station locations of the second and third phase of the Westside Subway…

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Blogosphere: New York Becomes Ungridlocked
City-Journal
Back in February 2009, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that, in three months' time, New York City would permanently close Broadway to car and truck traffic in Times Square and Herald Square. The plan would "ease traffic congestion throughout the Midtown grid," the mayor said...

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Blogosphere: Saving a Transit System and Turning Tides
T4 America Blog
Last month, the citizens of Baton Rouge, LA, voted to raise…

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Blogosphere: Light Rail and Racial Justice
Sightline Daily
Anyone familiar with Seattle's Rainier Valley knows it's a place in transition. Long one of the most racially diverse neighborhoods in the Northwest, it has for many decades struggled economically...

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Blogosphere: Car Sharing Could Cut Carbon Emissions
DC Streetsblog
The brilliant thing about car-sharing is that it leads people to drive less by providing access to cars. It…